This is a quick overview of the past month and a half.
We had an interesting past month and a half in Haiti and now here in Thailand. Haiti felt like a different challenge everyday, which made for an interesting time with ministry. Our ministry for the month was really just working with a church and an orphanage, teaching English, and pretty much doing whatever the church or orphanage needed for us to do. Having such a small spectrum of what we were doing was really hard on all of us, we felt like we should be doing something most of the time but we had a lot of down time instead. With that down time we started to see the Enemy sneaking his way into how we were feeling about Haiti, about the people there, about our ministry, about almost everything. There started to be this overwhelming feeling of sleepiness and just no want to do anything, and the Enemy loved it, which sucks! Toward the end of the month members of my team and the team we were living with started to get sick, and this just really took a toll on our teams, dynamic wise and so many other ways.
There is a phrase we World Racers like to use, “hurry up and wait,” and we did that a lot in Haiti and the beginning of this month also as we traveled to Thailand and began to find out what our ministry would be for the month. Hurry up and waiting is pretty self explanatory, basically you hurry to get somewhere and then discover that you now have to wait for something else, this is really hard to do, especially when you feel like you should be doing something almost all the time. Most of our travel days were full of hurry up and wait moments; for instance, we had to hurry to get to the bus station in Haiti because we thought our bus was going to leave around 10, it turns out we didn’t actually leave until about 2:30. But through all of the frustrating hurry up and wait moments and the sickness and just the overall hardship of October God has taught all of us so much. I know that is very vague, but there is just so much I could say but I have either already said it or I don’t know how to say it.
Now… we are in Thailand. So I started off this month sick, I landed in L.A. sick (which proved to be some pretty miserable travel days) and proceeded to be sick with an inner ear infection until about two days ago. And if you have ever had an inner ear infection you will know, you really don’t feel sick… until you sit or stand up. This proves to be very frustrating when you feel like you are just sitting around doing nothing; until you stand up. At first I didn’t understand why I was sick for so long, my team mates told me to ask God what His plan was with me being sick, and I was kind of like “oh yeah, okay I’ll get right on that.” Then I started to notice that my heart really wasn’t in the right place when it came to our ministry for the month. I’m not completely sure how I felt about what our ministry was and what His plan for me in this month was, but somehow through my sickness He set my heart right and made me very excited for our ministry this month. By the way our ministry this month is working with the children in forced labor around the bars here and teaching them English and the kids in the slums and talking with the men in women in the bars, working toward helping them get out of the bars.
I am very excited for this month and our ministry this month. I am so excited for what God has planned for me, my team, and the men, women, and children we get to minister to this month. I CAN’T WAIT TO UPDATE YOU LATER! 🙂
